Patrick White Quotes

• Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

  Patrick White

  Choices, Alternatives, Life Is

  Patrick White (2011). “The Aunt's Story”, p.137, Random House

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• To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

  Patrick White

  Stars, Appearance, Spoil

  Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.137, Random House

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• If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

  Patrick White

  Mind, Sometimes, Lost

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• If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

  Patrick White

  Imagination, Truth Is, Acceptable

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• Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

  Patrick White

  Honesty, Littles, Irony

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• She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

  Patrick White

  Stories, Literature, Kind

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• She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

  Patrick White

  Sleep, Men, Rocks

  Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House

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• I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

  Patrick White

  Jealous, Past, Bed

  Patrick White (1979). “The Twyborn Affair: A Novel”, Vintage

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